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What is Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)?
Border Gateway Protocol is one of those foundational, core infrastructure protocols used by Internet users everyday but not top of mind for the average consumer or end-user. Border Gateway Protocol, or BGP, is a routing protocol. BGP is the primary protocol for the Internet, and is a Layer 4 Transport protocol that sits on top of TCP [2]. It’s purpose is to keep the various systems on the Internet up to date with the information needed to send and receive data traffic correctly. So, real quick in a nutshell, when information is sent around these Internets, it’s broken up into chunks of data called ‘packets’. Packets sent on the Internet…
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What is Equinix? And Why Are They So Important??
[NOTE!: This is an evolving post for my research purposes to learn more about Equinix, this backbone of the internet(s).] Equinix is probably one of the most important companies that most people have never heard of. Do a quick ‘man-on-the-street’ style survey asking passers-by of the Big 5 of Tech, and surely “Equinix” is not top of mind. Nonetheless, Equinix is arguably just as important as the more well-known tech titans, if not more so. Equinix is a multinational company that runs a global network of large, industrial-scale data centers on every continent with the exceptions of Africa and Antarctica. Equinix helps take all the necessary IT infrastructure demands of…
